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March 20, 2026 -A new international direct action group called "Earthquake Faction" has burned an Israeli weapons factory in Czechia to the ground. [video]

The Earthquake Faction is launched. The Earthquake Faction struck the epicenter of the Israeli weapons industry in Europe. In Pardubice, Czech Republic, Elbit Systems' "Centre of Excellence" was newly built in collaboration with LPP, to service the global expansion of Israel's biggest weapons producer. Whilst the development, production and training center was empty, The Earthquake Faction intervened to destroy its equipment and set the factory ablaze. No one was harmed. The site is used to develop weaponry used by the Zionist entity to massacre people daily in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and across West Asia. The Earthquake Faction is an internationalist underground network that targets key sites critical to the Zionist entity. We aim to destroy all limbs of empire from within, by any means effective.

In the 12th Apr 26 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include

Israeli surgery and weddings continue despite rocket sirens.

Sheba Medical Center rises to number 7 in the world rankings.

Did the BBC or CNN show the 80,000 Muslims praying on Temple Mount?

Over 100 orbiting satellites are powered by Israeli engines.

There are 3,300 pre-launch orders for an Israeli personal aircraft.

Israeli history was made in an NBA basketball game.

A gem of a find from the Kingdom of Judah.

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The Torah / Bible says in Leviticus 26:4-5: "I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall overtake the vintage, and the vintage shall overtake the sowing...".

This newsletter is full of examples of how bountiful Israel has become. Even in wartime there are weddings in shelters, huge donations to support the less fortunate, dozens of medical breakthroughs, the 7th best hospital in the world, and 80,000 Muslims allowed to pray peacefully on the holiest Jewish site. 

Israel has become the most powerful nation in the Middle East. It is reaping the benefits of alliances with India and Taiwan, and sharing its bountiful water technology with Somaliland. Israel is a leading light in the development of Artificial Intelligence. Its battle-proven defense systems have just been purchased by the US, Germany and Greece, providing Israeli defense companies with billions of dollars of orders in the pipeline.  20,000 Californians are sharing in the bounty from jobs created by Israeli-founded companies, and investment in Israeli startups is at record levels.

Meanwhile a new Israeli TV series has been plucked by Apple TV, and Israeli sporting successes just keep flowing. No wonder that thousands of new immigrants have come to share the bounty. Finally, one Israeli couple has had an extremely bountiful crop - one baby born every year for 21 years.

Palestine Action has forced four UK companies to cut ties with Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems in the past three months

Declaring victory

Perhaps the most significant result of direct action against secondary targets is the way the victories are declared. Rather than avoiding admitting that the disassociation with Elbit was due to campaigning pressure, each of the four companies that have recently cut ties with Elbit had to email Palestine Action directly with confirmation.  This has become a necessary requirement to cease the campaign against a complicit company.  Amidst a genocide, every avenue must be taken in order to isolate, damage and disrupt Israel’s war machine.  Focusing our efforts on Elbit Systems and all those who facilitate them is proving to be a successful strategy, one which many more can get behind to channel our rage into results.

JANUARY 10, 2024- The co-founder of Palestine Action writes about her and fellow activists’ acquittal by a UK court for attempting to close down the Israeli arms firm’s operations in Britain.

"For over a decade, the UK has been a safe haven for Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems. "

"Elbit’s business model involves manufacturing bullets, drones, combat vehicles, electronic warfare systems and missiles, using the Israeli state’s criminal attacks on Gaza as opportunities to test and develop their latest lethal inventions. 

"The company was born out of a need to profit from and maintain Israel’s brutal occupation of the Palestinian people."

"Since 7 October, Israel has killed over 23,000 Palestinians, 9,600 of them being children, injured more than 58,000 people, destroyed over 70% of Gaza’s civil infrastructure and displaced over 1.9m people. "

"Elbit’s CEO Bezhalel Machlis boasted that the company is crucial to the ongoing genocide and has been thanked by the Israeli military for its services."

Palestine Action defendants including Huda Ammori (4th from right) outside court. (Photo: Martin Pope via Getty)

"During Israel’s intensified genocide of the Palestinian people, I was sitting in the dock of a court facing 11 charges for disrupting the production of weapons used to murder them. "

"Between the eight of us on trial, there were 35 counts on the indictment to defeat. "

“Our state’s complicity in the occupation of Palestine left me with no other viable option than direct action”

"Ultimately, we walked in facing varying amounts of prison time and received none. I was told if convicted on all the charges facing me I would be looking at a 4-5 year prison sentence." 

Palestine Action has proven that the merchants of death are not invincible.

Just this week, it was confirmed that Israel’s top weapons exporter Elbit Systems is closing down its offices in London.

The decision follows numerous protests against Elbit and Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), the letting agent for those offices.

It is the second time that Palestine Action, the group organizing the protests, has compelled Elbit to quit a site in Britain – a country identified by the firm as a priority for sales and investment.

Earlier this year, Elbit confirmed it had sold Ferranti, its subsidiary based in Oldham, near Manchester.

Palestine Action’s protests – which often involve smashing up weapons facilities – have angered Israel and its supporters.

One of Israel’s most influential backers in Britain is Priti Patel, the home secretary.

She has effectively declared war on Palestinian solidarity activists by claiming that the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is racist – without presenting any evidence.

Patel has proposed new legislation which targets the kind of protests Palestine Action has undertaken.

The National Security Bill – as the legislation is called – gives the police powers to designate as “prohibited places” areas where an “aircraft, or a part of an aircraft, used for military purposes” or “equipment relating to such an aircraft” is located.

Little opposition

Following the sale of its plant in Oldham and the closure of its London offices, Elbit now operates out of eight sites in Britain.

Elbit-owned plants – which make engines for drones among other components – could conceivably be given a protected status once the legislation comes into effect.

Introduced to Britain’s Parliament in May, the bill has so far encountered little opposition.

Most elected representatives appear to either welcome how it would penalize direct action against the arms trade or have no concern about its likely implications.

The bill’s stated objective is to replace “existing counter-espionage laws with a comprehensive framework for countering hostile state activity.”

The approach being taken is so “comprehensive” that it is questionable whether the bill is really focused on spying in the conventional sense of that term. Many of its provisions could be used against ordinary people seeking to disrupt the weapons business.

The bill enables life imprisonment for anyone who obtains or discloses “protected information” and behaves in a way deemed “prejudicial to the safety or interests of the United Kingdom.”